Book Launch of The Gospel of Trickster

Launching a new publication in collaboration with Hercules Editions, The Gospel of Trickster by poet Nancy Charley. To accompany the poem, my specially commissioned drawings link seemingly unrelated elements from children’s Bibles, gaming culture, news feeds, fancy dress stores, volcano lore and fairy tales. The images and poem together stress the sometimes dark, sometimes playful nature of this retelling of the Gospel story for modern times. An afterword for the book has been written by journalist and cultural commentator Sophia Deboick.

I have also produced a limited edition of 10 hand-tinted (gold, silver and dayglo) offset prints on Somerset paper entitled Trickster Cosmos.

Everything Matrix (2014)

Everything Matrix (2014)

Paper (backed with scrim), gesso, indigo dye, ink, gold leaf

200 cm x 200 cm

If it were possible answer every question about the future or discover the root of all uncertainties, would there not be more questions beyond these?

In this philosophical drawing device, an image of a folding cosmos, a sort of magic square/time machine/fortune teller, has been created as a focus for contemplation (of everything actual and imaginable). Indigo pigment has been used to reference the tradition in art of a prescient power that seeks to illuminate what cannot yet be seen or fully understood.